The Orwell Prize

2016 EXPOSING BRITAIN’S SOCIAL EVILS prize winner

EXPOSING BRITAIN’S SOCIAL EVILS prize winner

Nicci Gerrard

Author, Words fail us: Dementia and the arts

Nicci Gerard is a novelist and author of Soham: A Story Of Our Times. She also writes with her partner Sean French as Nicci French. With nearly one million Britons in the grip of dementia, it’s hardly surprising that writers and artists should increasingly tackle the subject. But can the arts ever illuminate a condition that by its very nature resists all understanding?